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Decoded's frustration-saving add-on adds new features to Blender's camera system, streamlining keyframing DOF and object visibility.

Sunday, March 16th, 2025

VFX artist Rob Dickinson's handy add-on fixes artefacts in 3D scans and models in one click, to prepare them for animation or rendering.

Sunday, February 23rd, 2025

Handy free Blender add-on displays an estimated time and progress bar for entire animations being rendered, not just individual frames.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Rigging artist Walter Delgado's intuitive add-on retargets animation between 3D characters, regardless of rig structure.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024

Discover the new features in VFX artist Erik Lehmann's time-saving tool for bulk-renaming objects in Maya scenes.

Tuesday, May 28th, 2024

Control Max with text commands: type in a description of what you want to create and have this GPT-based plugin do the work for you.

Thursday, March 21st, 2024

ProductionCrate's free add-on generates strings of animated text messages for VFX and motion graphics work.

Wednesday, September 13th, 2023

Interesting hard surface modelling add-on gets support for real-time cuts for quick shape exploration.

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

Games artist Mihail Lupu's neat $45 script lets you create or edit organic models directly inside Max.

Thursday, May 11th, 2023

Handy free tool lets you take screenshots from After Effects' Composition Panel in one click.

Monday, February 13th, 2023

Free tool: StackUp

Handy 3ds Max script generates randomised buildings - or any other type of 3D model - by stacking modular components along splines.

Wednesday, January 25th, 2023

Custom versions of the open-source 3D software could be used as VFX and game pipeline tools.

Monday, November 7th, 2022

Amazing set of free tools and scripts adds brush- and physics-based set dressing to 3ds Max.

Monday, August 15th, 2022